Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 7 | Utah Artist's Mother Held

UTAH ARTISTS ARTIST'S MOTHER HELD Mrs Estella Beauregard F Faces aces Larceny Charge Mrs Estella Beauregard of Fillmore Fill Fill- more was bound over to stand trial in the district court of or this county on two charges of ot grand larceny following a hearing before belore Judge JudgeN N N. H. H Tanner yesterday afternoon Mrs Beauregard venerable mother moth moth- er of oC the late Donald Beauregard noted artist of at Utah is accused of the theft of oC pictures painted by her herBon herson herson son Bon and valued at uno It Is al alleged alleged al al- that Eh chI stole tole the pictures from front an I art exhibit at the chamber of commerce and from an exhibit at the tho op Co-op Furniture store tore One complaint alleges the theft of six pictures from the chamber of ot commerce commerce com com- merce merc and another complaint charges the theft of or one picture from the Co op store Complaint against Mrs Beauregard Beauregard Beaure Beaure- gard fard was sworn to by Mrs Marilla Martha Hunter Barlow who claims to be owner of ot the pictures alleging that they w were re given her by the painter er I before his death w when en en they were I sweethearts She cl claims the artist gave her the pictures in 1910 and 1911 when he was teaching art Inthe in the the Ogden Ogden and when she as Miss Marilla Mar Hunter and he were close friends The artist died In 1913 He had lived at the Hunter Hunt Hunt- er home while in Ogden and left the pictures in question at the Hunter home horle While the defense introduced no evidence at the hearing yesterday It Is claimed that Mrs Beauregard I took the pictures as administratrix of the estate of her son Evidence was introduced to show that the mother was the duly appointed and qualified administratrix of ot her son eon I Mrs Beauregard Is Is out ut on bonds